The groups dove deeply into their initial study of Rome despite balancing
exams in this and other classes. They did so through a combination of
lecture, reading, and a US Public Broadcasting Service clip (during which
the teacher was able to integrate previously-discussed information about
Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus onto a timeline on the white board).
Within this time period, one group--4A--did an improvised current affairs
activity, given how the exam period had put them significantly ahead of 4B
and 4C.
The activity--which used an article from La Nación--focused on the Costa
Rican Government's final effort to reform the public school calendar (a move
that would likely eventually impact that of private schools as well).
Great passions were unleashed unlike the teacher had yet seen, with strong
opposition--to include the near-ingestion of the document by at least one
student--the order of the day. The teacher struggled to calm these passions
and reframe the discussion onto the facts; the potential Positives and
Negatives of the proposal.
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